but quite literally... think of a record, the needle wore down to nothing. I guess thats what happens after not turning it off for a year, and watching and ripping a LOT of movies. Damn.

Like the guy said, it happens more and more. Apple has to cut corners just like BMW does now... Sucks. Used to be a "specialty" product. Sucks worse it happened while i was on vacation so my time machine wouldn't have helped. I did buy a 4 gb memory stick and wont be deleting pics anymore.